Scouts hit the trail for annual cleanup
Published on Thu, May 7, 2009 by Beckye RandallRead More Communities
Boy Scouts from throughout the region spent Saturday, May 2, performing cleanup work on the popular Snohomish County Centennial Trail. The goal for this year's event was for 600 scouts to provide 1,800 service hours, an increase of 30 percent over 2008.
Six units from the Tyee Scout District, which serves the Marysville and Arlington area, participated in the event. Volunteers for the project included Cub Scout packs 80 and 180; Boy Scout troops 82, 100 and 206; Venturing Crew 419; and the Stillaguamish Valley School.
The scouts focused on work at trailheads, parking lots and along sections of the public trail. Among other projects, they repainted fences and signs, clipped errant branches off the trail, washed gates, removed blackberry bushes and tossed downed tree limbs into the neighboring woods.
The Centennial Trail is constructed along the original railway corridor operated by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad in 1889. The trail got its start in the late 1980s when a six-mile segment was established north of Snohomish. Seventeen miles of the trail, which is used by walkers, bicyclers, equestrians and others, are completed and other sections are in progress.
For information about the Centennial Trail, including a map, go to www.snocoparks.org.
Caption: Boy Scouts from Troop 82 of Marysville repainted the fence at the Getchell Trailhead parking lot during the Centennial Trail cleanup day. From left, the boys are Richard Beckert, Zach Williams, Josh Gottas and Alex Stapay.
Six units from the Tyee Scout District, which serves the Marysville and Arlington area, participated in the event. Volunteers for the project included Cub Scout packs 80 and 180; Boy Scout troops 82, 100 and 206; Venturing Crew 419; and the Stillaguamish Valley School.
The scouts focused on work at trailheads, parking lots and along sections of the public trail. Among other projects, they repainted fences and signs, clipped errant branches off the trail, washed gates, removed blackberry bushes and tossed downed tree limbs into the neighboring woods.
The Centennial Trail is constructed along the original railway corridor operated by the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad in 1889. The trail got its start in the late 1980s when a six-mile segment was established north of Snohomish. Seventeen miles of the trail, which is used by walkers, bicyclers, equestrians and others, are completed and other sections are in progress.
For information about the Centennial Trail, including a map, go to www.snocoparks.org.
Caption: Boy Scouts from Troop 82 of Marysville repainted the fence at the Getchell Trailhead parking lot during the Centennial Trail cleanup day. From left, the boys are Richard Beckert, Zach Williams, Josh Gottas and Alex Stapay.
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